bostonmigration.bsky.social
Boston-based, immigration-obsessed; Posts on immigration, Boston, refugees. Retired canonist. AILA, CLSA. Reaction to most news: Cui bono?
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The largest growth of immigrants in detention at any given point in time has been in the category of immigrants with no criminal history. Let's look at that data a few ways. 3/3
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For me, Bluesky has a good selection of people I want to follow and is easy to use. I check in briefly on Twitter to see those who are still only there, and even more briefly on Threads, which I find unwieldy. Just one person’s practice but sharing anyway.
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Awful.
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Thanks for making this more visible. They are also making contributions to social security!
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😢 And they’ve only gotten started.
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Even if not physically in the buildings, what if they’ve put backdoors in the computer systems?
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🎉🎶🎈
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Fourth grade. Sheesh. Heartbreaking.
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Right. Let’s also remember that mass deportations or detention of workers/taxpayers will reduce tax revenue and social security contributions.
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Exactly right, Andrew. This is about intimidation, not public safety.
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If the administration doesn’t like the normal immigration court process because they think it’s too slow, maybe they could try staffing and funding immigration courts at an appropriate level. Maybe focus deportation cases on violent criminals instead of on parents, workers and taxpayers.
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Well said.
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Yep.
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Awful. You know, before they were detained, many of them were working and paying taxes. Geo pay of $1/day hardly comparable. It would be great if MPI studied impact of detention on tax revenue and social security contributions.
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It would be good to do.
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Exactly.
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Reminds me of tech writing
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Trump often fearmongers about an “invasion” of unauthorized immigrants. Now he's manifesting those fever dreams into reality through a mass “de-documentation” campaign.
This is not an immigration agenda that targets criminals; it’s one that criminalizes immigrants who follow the law
wapo.st/3HvBBka
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This is very sad. You have to wonder whether the townspeople are starting to realize that their concept of “illegal alien” is very different from the administration’s concept.
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You are unfortunately all too right.
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😲
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You are so right.
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You are right. He could easily ask his own SEVIS people for a list of all the current Harvard students. But no. 🤷
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And before they were shipped off to these concentration camps, many of those people were working, *paying taxes* and *contributing to social security*. Now, not so much.
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Thanks for the excellent reporting and detailed analysis of the different treatment accorded to TPS holders from Venezuela in contrast to those from El Salvador.
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😡 “DHS attorneys … moved to dismiss scores of deportation cases, saying people were free to go. But as soon as they left the courtrooms, a phalanx of federal law enforcement officers were waiting to handcuff them and take them to immigration detention.”
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Think about trying Hainanese Chicken Rice www.tatlerasia.com/dining/food/...
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And apparently no notice of a removal order.